Facebook now says ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords were exposed, not ‘tens of thousands’

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Well, that’s a heck of a revision. Back in March, as part of a disclosure about Facebook having learned that some user passwords were being stored in plain text and easily searchable by thousands of Facebook employees, the company acknowledged that this included the passwords of “tens of thousands” of Instagram users.

A few weeks after making that initial disclosure in a blog post here, though, Facebook today revised that number to “millions,” not tens of thousands. (Whoops!)

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